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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






2. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






3. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






4. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






5. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






6. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






7. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






8. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






9. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






10. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






11. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






12. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






13. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






14. ACWP






15. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






16. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






17. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






18. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






19. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






20. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






21. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






22. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






23. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






24. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






25. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






26. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






27. The process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller and awarding a contract






28. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






29. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






30. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






31. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






32. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






33. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






34. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






35. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






36. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






37. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






38. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






39. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






40. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






41. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






42. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






43. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






44. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






45. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






46. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






47. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






48. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






49. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






50. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations